FW: [dita] Groups - Draft charter for the Adoption SC (Statement of Purpose for OASIS DITA Adoption Subcommittee.doc) uploaded

This is a reply that I sent out on this
topic about a month ago.

 

I’m still in favor of creating the
new sub-committee if there are enough volunteers to make it go. 

 

At this point I guess I’d favor
either:

(i) dropping items 9, 12,
and 13, or 

(ii) dropping item 12 and
tightening up items 9 and 13 to focus the purpose of the liaisons with other
groups on promotion and awareness activities and away from changes to the DITA Specification.

 

    -Jeff

 

From: Ogden, Jeff 

Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 5:50
PM

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Subject: RE: [dita] Groups - Draft
charter for the Adoption SC (Statement of Purpose for OASIS DITA Adoption
Subcommittee.doc) uploaded

 

An adoption sub-committee seems like a good idea to me.

 

I think the challenge might be getting enough people to
commit to being members of the sub-committee and doing the work. It seems like
there will be a lot of work. What is the minimum number of people that are
needed to do the work?  How much work are they likely to be asked to put
in on this?

 

The 14 items in the scope of work for the sub-committee
outlines a pretty ambitious agenda. Do we want to put the work items in to some
sort of priority order or would that be part of the initial work of the
sub-committee?

 

I wonder if items #9 “Establish liaisons with other organizations, government
agencies, trade groups” and #13, “Interface with other TCs to define how DITA can be used with
other standards to address specific scenarios”, are things
that the DITA TC wants to delegate to a sub-committee in such a blanket way or
if it might be better to hold this more to TC itself and delegate on a case by
case basis.

 

I agree with Bob that certification is likely to be a can of
worms that we don’t want to open. If we ever do want to work on
certification, I think that an entirely separate sub-committee dedicated to
that would be a good approach.

 

   -Jeff

 

From: Bob Doyle
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Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008
2:07 PM

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Cc: 

Subject: Re: [dita] Groups - Draft
charter for the Adoption SC (Statement of Purpose for OASIS DITA Adoption
Subcommittee.doc) uploaded

 

Hi JoAnn,

This draft looks very good to me.

Should the first para say

By advancing the adoption of DITA through
OASIS ?

I very much like Scope
point 2. I would like to follow up on my survey of Wikipedia pages mentioning
DITA or strongly related to DITA.

And I am happy about main point 6, to emphasize sharing and coordination with
other entities, like www.DITAUsers.org.

From experience with burned fingers at KM Pro and CM Pros, I am skeptical about
Scope point 12 - certification. Likely to be can of worms. Maybe certificates
of completion - e.g., of your Workshop, of Michael's course, of accredited
tutorials, but professional certification, I would say no.

Cheers,

Bob

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document repository.

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Describes the purpose and role of a new DITA Adoption Subcommittee

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